MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

RSS2090

Russian nineteenth-century literature and society

Proposed to be offered next in 1997

S M Vladiv-Glover

Synopsis An introduction to Russian culture and society in the 19th century through the study of literary texts against a background of Russian artistic and intellectual movements (realism, positivism and the `new' art at the end of the century). Slides, musical tapes and films make up an integral part of the subject. Texts are studied in English.

Assessment Written (4500 words): 70% + Examination (1.5 hours): 30%

Prescribed texts

• Chekhov A `Three Sisters' in Plays Penguin
• Chernyshevsky N What is to be done? Vintage
• Dostoevsky F M Notes from the underground Penguin
• Goncharov I Oblomov Penguin
• Pushkin A S Tales of Belkin
• Turgenev I Fathers and sons Penguin
• Tolstoy `The Power of Darkness' in Plays by Leo Tolstoy tr. L A Maude, OUP